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Author: cparker

  • Santa Classics

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    For his series titled “Santa Classics” photographer Ed Wheeler dresses up as Santa, takes a shot of himself in a certain position under carefully arranged lighting, and then composites the photo into an image from classic art. The Previous/Next buttons aren’t obvious at the lower left of the website home page. There is also a…

  • British Library image trove

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    The British Library has uploaded to Flickr over one million public domain images from 17th, 18th and 19th century books. Starting next year, they will enlist the participation of the web in describing enough of the images to give the automated cataloguing systems a start. There is an article about the project here. The images…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Courbet's View of Ornans

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    View of Ornans, Gustave Courbet Painted in the 1850s. Just in case we’re tempted to think the broken color and painterly surfaces of Impressionism sprang from nowhere. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on Fullscreen, then zoom or download arrow.

  • Simon Stålenhag

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    For several years Swedish concept artist and illustrator Simon Stålenhag has been working on a series of digital images that, though initially just fanciful works done for practice or his own amusement, gradually evolved a common theme. The images portray somewhat dystopian times involving futuristic machinery, slightly retro vehicles and suggestions of gleaming cities… and,…

  • Jeremy Lipking (update)

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    WhenI first wrote about contemporary American painter Jeremy Lipking back in 2006, I was struck in particular with his subtle and masterful understanding of value, and its relationship to color. That impression has only been reinforced by the work I’ve seen from Lipking since then. His figures and faces, along with an occasional still life…

  • Self-portraits #7

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    “Selfies” were in the news again today, as the press evidently felt that the U.S. president taking one of himself and some other world leaders at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service was a newsworthy event (sigh). Here are some more artists’ “selfies”, done with brush or graphite. (Images above: Diego Rivera, George Tooker, Frits Thaulow, Jean…